Comments on: Lawless http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/12/17/lawless/ Cheating on the Kobayashi Maru since 2001 Tue, 12 May 2026 10:27:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Veronica http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/12/17/lawless/#comment-192 Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:39:41 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/12/17/lawless/#comment-192 Thanks! V. Thanks!

V.

]]> by: Jemima http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/12/17/lawless/#comment-191 Wed, 18 Dec 2002 02:44:36 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/12/17/lawless/#comment-191 I haven't gone into details because I've had to read about it in the paper constantly for the past year, but if I did rehash it all, I think you'd have to admit that the Archdiocese of Boston is exceptional. It's more than your average pedophilia and priest-shuffling. What other Cardinal flees to the Vatican when he gets subpoenaed? Where else has a diocese backed out of a financial settlement with a large, vocal group of victims? What other archdiocese has threatened to declare bankruptcy rather than pay damages? It's unprecedented. The threat of bankruptcy is particularly ironic when you live in a section of Boston where the best parks are actually Church properties that are open to the public. I guess you just have to be here to appreciate it properly. That's why I imagined the Pope as baffled by it all. I haven’t gone into details because I’ve had to read about it in the paper constantly for the past year, but if I did rehash it all, I think you’d have to admit that the Archdiocese of Boston is exceptional. It’s more than your average pedophilia and priest-shuffling.

What other Cardinal flees to the Vatican when he gets subpoenaed? Where else has a diocese backed out of a financial settlement with a large, vocal group of victims? What other archdiocese has threatened to declare bankruptcy rather than pay damages? It’s unprecedented. The threat of bankruptcy is particularly ironic when you live in a section of Boston where the best parks are actually Church properties that are open to the public.

I guess you just have to be here to appreciate it properly. That’s why I imagined the Pope as baffled by it all.

]]> by: liz http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/12/17/lawless/#comment-190 Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:09:36 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/12/17/lawless/#comment-190 There's nothing 'only in America' about this scandal. The same thing went down in the Anglican Church of Australia, complicated by the fact that the arch-bishop who ignored claims of abuse in the beginning is now the Governor-General. But as a Catholic, I appreciate your thoughts for the Pope. 'Cos ... yeah. Getting tired of the secular abuse here. There’s nothing ‘only in America’ about this scandal. The same thing went down in the Anglican Church of Australia, complicated by the fact that the arch-bishop who ignored claims of abuse in the beginning is now the Governor-General.

But as a Catholic, I appreciate your thoughts for the Pope. ‘Cos … yeah. Getting tired of the secular abuse here.

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